What's Your Plan For The Labor Day Weekend?

This photo of Elephant Butte is courtesy of TripAdvisor

This photo of Elephant Butte is courtesy of TripAdvisor

This photo of Elephant Butte is courtesy of TripAdvisor

If you have not yet finalized your plans for the Lobor Day Weekend...don't worry there is a lot to do across the Land of Enchantment. Are you into boating, Camping, Water Skiing, Fishing, Mountain Climbing, Visiting monuments, this is the time of the year to spend sometime outdoors. For those who are living in the Metro Areas I would suggest a road trip.

For this Labor Day Weekend my recommended destination of choice is Elephant Butte. There is so much to do there; and yes thousands of people will be there having a good time. Just a few reminders as you enjoy the weekend:

1. Do not forget your Sunscreen (USE IT)

2. If you plan to consume alcohol, be responsible. The DUI Laws apply when you are boating.

3. Always wear your Life Vest when you are on the lake

4. Do not over exert yourself.

5. Be Courteous to everyone...

HAVE A GREAT LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Folks who are not familiar with New Mexico often think "desert" and picture an area full of nothing but sand dunes and cactus. Couldn't be further frorm the truth! In addition to our lush, green river valley areas and pine-covered "Rocky Mountain Highs," we've even got lakes. Pretty big lakes. For boating and watere skiing and fishing...

Recently, my extended family spent a long weekend at one of our nearby lakes, Elephant Butte. Just an hour and a half drive south from our home in Bosque Farms, we enjoyed getting out on the jet skis, boating, water skiing, inner tubing, making sand castles, and even cliff diving (OK, I opted out of that one, but my sister and a large number of the younger generation parrticipated!)

Check out some of the pictures, and forever after picture our Land of Enchantment as a great place for water sports, too

Move over, Luke Skywalker and the Enterprise crew!

This is no joke! "Spaceport America," just outside Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, just broke ground last week, and tickets are already available to book your personal flight into space!

All you Trekkies, would-be Jedi, and Hitchhikers of the Galaxy, you actually can buy tickets for your first trip into space right now--- in fact, according to a recent article in the Albuquerque Journal, three hundred people have already bought their spaceflight tickets!

Virgin Galactic is selling tickets for their upcoming public spaceflights--- for a mere $200,000 apiece!

Virgin Galactic President Will Whitehorn claims they already have $40 million in deposits onhand from would-be spacefarers. Groundbreaking ceremonies at the Spaceport America site in Sierra County, NM, took place last Friday, and construction of the spaceport is scheduled to begin in July, with the first project being the construction of the 10,000 foot long runway. Bids for the spaceport terminal, which will look something like a flying saucer, are expected to be in place later this year, and completeion of the spaceport is expected in late 2010. New Mexico state officieals are touting the spaceport as a great new economic engine for the state, with about 400 jobs expected immediately just during the construction phase. George Nield, associate administrator of NASA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, was quoted as saying that the new spaceport will transform "New Mexico into one of the nation's gateways to space."

The new spaceport's location is a couple of hours drive south from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and should generate some more tourist revenue for our Land Of Enchantment!

(The cute clipart above came from a free clipart site http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/space/ships/ )